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The Wisconsin Ethics Commission announced in a memo Friday that the Wisconsin county prosecutors of Chippewa, Florence and Langlade Counties have declined to pursue felony charges for conspiring to evade campaign finance laws against the fundraising committee for former President Donald Trump and Wisconsin state Rep. Janel Brandtjen (R) due to “a conflict of interest.” [...]

Amnesty International and the International Commission for Jurists (ICJ) highlighted in a report released Friday that the Taliban crackdown on Afghan women’s rights could amount to gender persecution under international law. The report noted that the Taliban regime’s actions include “imprisonment, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment,” opening them up to potential prosecution within the [...]

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin Wednesday ruled that a Milwaukee-based coffee roster cannot file property insurance claims for COVID-19-related income losses. The case stemmed from a dispute between Colectivo Coffee Roasters and their property insurer, Society Insurance. Under the insurance policy, Society would pay for “direct physical loss of or damage” that occurs to Colectivo’s [...]

President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court Tuesday to overturn the Wisconsin election results in a second attempt to involve the Supreme Court in altering election results in his favor. In their petition, lawyers acting for Trump argue that antifraud mandates were disregarded by Wisconsin election officials during the Wisconsin recount. More specifically, they [...]

Reuters released a comprehensive report Wednesday on women’s deaths in jails across the US. The report collected data from more than 500 jails from 2008 through 2019 and documented 914 female inmate deaths. The report cited suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, deficient medical care for inmates detoxing from opioids, and inadequate medical standards for treating pregnant [...]

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) said Friday that they have filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump and his campaign on behalf of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and three Detroit residents. The suit challenges Trump and his campaign’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Michigan by [...]

Three Wisconsin voters filed a Notice of Voluntary Dismissal on Monday to dismiss their voter fraud lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Michael Langenhorst, Stephen Fifrick and Michael LeMay filed a lawsuit last week alleging that fraudulent ballots from Milwaukee, Dane and Menominee counties were included in Wisconsin’s [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is monitoring polling locations in 18 states across the US on election day, ensuring compliance with the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Voting rights monitors are regularly dispatched to monitor polling locations during federal elections. As in past years, monitors will focus on compliance with the Voting Rights Act, and [...]

A US federal judge on Wednesday denied a conservative group’s request to block five Wisconsin cities from accepting grants to help pay for the upcoming election. The grants, which total over $6 million, were awarded by the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) to the cities of Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee and Racine to help [...]

Voter suppression, which represents the dark underbelly of the American experiment, has reared its head throughout our history, particularly beginning at the cession of the Civil War. After the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, former slaves got an all-too-fleeting taste of emancipation when they not only came out to vote in droves, but [...]